Power Outage in Fremont, OH

Blizzard. An Arctic cold front swept through the area shortly before midnight December 23rd. Low pressure along this front tracked over Lake Erie early in the morning on December 23rd and rapidly intensified through the day while slowly lifting northeast across Ontario. With the frontal passage rain changed to snow with temperatures dropping from the upper 30s and lower 40s to sub-zero in about 8 hours. A period of light to moderate snow occurred behind the front into the morning hours of December 23rd before becoming much lighter by midday. The period of snow and rapidly falling temperatures led to a flash freeze and icy conditions on area roadways. While the falling snow became lighter through the daytime hours of December 23rd, winds began increasing during the pre-dawn hours and gusted over 50 MPH through the day. A peak wind gust of 58 MPH was measured at 1:55 PM December 23rd at the Sandusky County Regional Airport. Scattered tree damage and power outages resulted. Wind gusts very gradually subsided into December 24th, though gusts didn���t drop below 30 MPH until that evening. This led to a prolonged period of widespread blowing and drifting snow beginning early in the morning December 23rd and continuing through the afternoon and evening, with some patchy blowing and drifting snow continuing all the way through Christmas Eve. The Sandusky County Regional Airport reported visibility consistently at or below one-quarter of a mile in falling and/or blowing snow beginning around 4 AM December 23rd and continuing through 5 PM before gradually improving. Wind gusts were well over 35 MPH for that entire period, meaning blizzard conditions were observed. The greatest impact from this storm was to travel due to the flash freeze and extensive blowing and drifting snow, to go along with low visibility. Minor accidents, slide-offs and disabled vehicles were reported throughout the area on December 23rd and 24th. The most significant incident occurred shortly before 12:30 PM December 23rd at mile marker 106 of the Ohio Turnpike, in Townsend Township along the Erie County border. A deadly pile-up involving 46 vehicles occurred, resulting in 4 fatalities (a 59 year-old male, 30 year-old male, 37 year-old female and 19 year-old female). A total of 73 injuries occurred, several critical. At the time of the accident blowing snow was resulting in near-zero visibility with winds gusting over 50 MPH and wind chills between -30 and -35 degrees. Due to the severity of the accident and harsh conditions the Turnpike did not fully reopen in both directions until 5 PM December 24th. The Sandusky County Sheriff called a Level 3 snow emergency the morning of December 23rd, which was not lifted until early December 24th. This closed all roads in the county to non-emergency travel. Wind chills plunged below 0 around 4 AM December 23rd and did not warm back above 0 until the early morning hours of December 26th. A minimum wind chill of -37 degrees was reported at 9:55 AM December 23rd at the Sandusky County Regional Airport. A weather station in Fremont reported a wind chill of -33 degrees at 11:00 AM. A number of burst pipes were reported across northern Ohio due to this cold, with temperatures remaining in the single digits until Christmas morning. Snowfall totals in the county averaged 2 to 3 inches.

December 23, 2022

Thunderstorm Wind. Several power poles blown down in Woodville. Entire town lost power for a time.

June 13, 2022

Thunderstorm Wind. Four power poles downed at US-6 and County Road 294 northeast of Vickery. Person was trapped in car in between poles, but was not injured.

June 01, 2022

High Wind. Five power poles were completely broken off near the ground on Ohio State Route 510 north of Clyde.

December 11, 2021

Thunderstorm Wind. Trees and power lines down in Gibsonburg.

June 21, 2021

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@grid_events - January 13, 2023 16:45

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@grid_events - December 23, 2022 13:01

Fremont, OH (6:34 PM) Grid Power Outage Event >> The Ting Network detected an Electric Utility Grid Power Outage ev… https://t.co/PgOBrKsXoa

@grid_events - September 17, 2022 22:45

Campus is currently experiencing a full power outage. More updates will be provided shortly.

@TerraCC - March 07, 2022 19:50